Syringe



(No Model.)

W. L. WHITTING-TON.

SYRINGE.

No. 604,645. Patented May 24,1898.

"UNITED sum harem" @FHQE.

WILLIAM L. WI-IITTINGTON, OF ST: JOSEPILIHSSOURT.

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' SFEGIFIGATION-forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,645,0lated May24., 1898.

. nea... filed May 13, 1395. Renewed December yr. 1897. Serial No.662,341. (No model.)

r all whom it may concern! Be it known that I, WILLIAM- hwn-rrtrme- TON,a citizen of the United States, residing .at St. Joseph, in the countyof Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new andusefulImprovements inVaginal Syringes;

in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a vaginal syringe embodying myinvention. a detail side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of thedischarge-nozzle of the syringe and the frame thereon for holding thevagina open. Fig. 3 is a perspective View, with parts broken-away, ofthe said frame removed from the discharge-nozzle. Fig. 4 is a detail enlarged perspective view of the discharge-nozzle. Fig. 5 is an end viewof the same, and

f Fig. 6 is a longitudinal diametrical section of the socket at the endof the valve-tube into which the discharge-nozzle is inserted.

-.In the said. drawings similar letters designate correspondingreferring. to which 4 A indicates a vaginalsyringe which, like theordinary vaginal syringe, may have the bulb a, the induction-tube Iconnected with one end of the bulb a and having a Weight 0 at its freeend, the eduction or discharge tube :d at the opposite end of the bulba, and the internally-threaded socket e, connected to. 4

the tube 01, and B indicates my improved discharge nozzle. This nozzle Bhas, in common- "With the ordinary discharge-nozzle, a reduced andthreaded end f to take into the socket e and discharge-apertures g at oradjacent to. .its forward end, and it is provided at about theproportional distance illustrated from its rear end with thecollar-flange g, and is also provided immediately in rear of thecollarflange with one or two (preferably two) prooughly cleansed by thefluid injected through Fig. 2 is.

I notches j, receiving the projections 71. of the parts in all of theviews,

jections h, the purpose of which will be pres- 5'0 ently' described. V

0 indicates my improved frame for opening and holding the vagina open,so as to permit of the interior of the same being thorthe medium of thesyringe. This frame G comprises the sleeve 01, which is designed to .beplaced upon the rear portion of the nozzle B, between the collar-flangeg thereon and the socket e, and is provided in its forward end-with-oneor two'notches j to receive the projection or projections h of thenozzle, as better shownin Fig. 2, the radially-disposed arms is at therear ends of the sleeve] 2', the forward annular plate Z, and the curvedbars m, connected at their opposite ends t the arms is and plate, Z, lIt will be seenfrom the foregoing that-when the frameO is placed on thenozzle B the 7o nozzle, will securely hold the, said frame againstturning on the nozzle, while the collair-flange g and theend of thesockete, be-

tween which the sleeve 11 is interposed, will securelyhold the frameagainst endwise movement on the nozzle. The frame C, when thus placedand secured on the nozzle B and inserted in the vagina, serves to openthe vagina thoroughly, so as to permit thewater or medicated solutionforced through the nozzle So 1 B to reach every part of the interior ofthe Vagina, and also to permit the said water or medicated solution topass freely from the vagina, the spaces between the arms is on thesleeve i forming channels for such passage.

When it is not desired to use the frame 0, it is simply necessary toscrew the nozzle B out of the socket e and remove the frame from thesaid nozzle, which may be readily effected, when the nozzlemay be againinserted in the socket e and the syringe used in the ordinary manner. 4

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that my improved frameattachment for vaginal syringes may be very cheaply made, and it willalso be appreciated that the improved nozzle B may be manufactured quiteas cheaply as the ordinary discharge-nozzles,

and that-therefore .the only difierence besleeve c, placed on the nozzlebetween the :5

tween the cost of the ordinary vaginal syr-' collar-flange thereof andthe socket'ofthe inge and-one embodying my improvements isdischarge-tube and having a notch iii-its forthe'bare cost of the frame0, which, as above ward end receiving the projection h', of the I 5stated, may be manufactured very cheaply. 'nozzle, the arms 70,extending radially from Having described my invention, 'what I the rearend of the sleeve, the forward plate, 20 claim is 1 p and the barsconnected at their ends to the A vaginal syringe having aninterior1ysaid plate and the arms is, substantially as, threaded socketat the end of its dischargef. specified. :0 tube, thedischarge-nozzlehaving its rear end reduced and threaded to take intosaid socket WILLIAM WHI-TTINGTON' and also having the collar flange orshoulder Witnesses:

g, and the projection h, in rear of said flange LUCIAN J. EASTIN,

or shoulder, and the frame comprising the ROBERT E. HARRILIJ.

